Figure 4

(a) Cartilage formation at 4 weeks after rib fracture surgery assessed by toluidine blue staining. Magnification is × 200 and scale bar is 0.5 mm. (b) Quantitative analysis of cartilage area. N=5 per group. Values are expressed as mean±s.e.m. **P<0.01 vs. Saline, ††P<0.01 vs. Ang II, ##P<0.01 vs. Ang II+hyd. A full color version of this figure is available at the Hypertension Research journal online.